WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.240 --> 00:00:04.839 A ruling from the Supreme Court that liberals hate might actually help them win the 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:08.759 culture war against Ronda Santis. And why are the writers about to strike in 3 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:11.119 Hollywood? I'm gonna tell you when it's got me feeling a little like a 4 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:15.599 fraud. And restaurants and the national anthem it's creepy. Wait till we talk 5 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:24.640 about this uncensored, unfiltered, unhinged cREL Cast. Listen daily on your Favid 6 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:32.439 streaming service. Here is the cREL Cast. I I'm Correl, silvery glad 7 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:36.520 you are joining me. Happy Monday to all of you out there on May 8 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:39.799 first, May the fourth be with you. That's coming up, all right, 9 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:42.719 A ruling from the Supreme Court that liberals have hated for a long time, 10 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:48.560 including myself, may help win the culture war against Ronda Santis when it 11 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:51.159 comes to Disney. We're gonna talk about that, but before I do, 12 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:53.799 I would just like to say I went out Saturday night with Steve. We 13 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:57.960 went to the Star of the Desert Arena in prim Nevada. It's a great 14 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:00.560 arena. It's older, was built in nineteen ninety four and I don't think 15 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:06.879 they changed the carpet since. But it's really gone R and B and Stephen 16 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:08.719 never been to an all black concert, and that's really what I grew up 17 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:11.480 with. So I was right at home, people wave in their hand and 18 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:15.040 screaming, you better sang. And we went to see and I loved that. 19 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:18.599 By the way, I ain't culturally appropriate, and that is my culture. 20 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.319 That's where I came from. When I'm at a concert, if I 21 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:23.200 can't scream out you better sang, bitch, then I ain't at the right 22 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:27.439 concert. Okay. So we went to see Stephanie Mills and she did not 23 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:34.400 disappoint. I saw Stephanie Mills first on one drama in like nineteen seventy five 24 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.879 or seventy six, something like that. I was like fourteen years old and 25 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:40.519 she had been cast in The Whiz on Broadway. And she went on one 26 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:45.519 darrama which was Kids Our People to Waka Doo, Waka Doo, Waka doo, 27 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:49.599 and she sang home and that was it. That From that moment on, 28 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:52.680 I loved her. I danced all her songs in the eighties and nineties, 29 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:55.760 and when she went to ballads and the two thousands, I sang along 30 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:57.840 with her in the two thousands, and I've loved her she's sixty six, 31 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:02.120 she looks in ratible, and yeah, she's outspoken, and she's the one 32 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:06.040 that got in trouble for saying that, you know, Diana Ross, Beyonce 33 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:08.520 is not Diana Ross, and you know what, I'm with her on that. 34 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:12.240 So anyway, I loved her. I loved the show. It was 35 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:15.560 great getting out and I gotta tell you, I went for free. Now, 36 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:17.039 I've gone to concerts for free in my whole life as media, but 37 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:20.960 this time I didn't. The management actually didn't call me back. I called 38 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.000 twice, management didn't call me back. That's how they are nowadays. They 39 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:27.680 get so many calls from people, influences whatever, they just don't call people 40 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:31.879 back. But anyway, so I joined LV House Seats Las Vegas House Seats. 41 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:34.879 Now I know I have a lot of listeners in the Bay Area and 42 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.199 Reno. They have this in those areas too, And you pay one hundred 43 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:43.360 and forty nine bucks a year, including text messages which you want, and 44 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.360 when a great show has extra seats, they give them to LV house Seats 45 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:50.400 and then they send you a text message. Well, about a week and 46 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:52.199 a half ago, I got a text message, Hey, you want to 47 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:54.319 see Stephanie Mills, and I said, yes, I do. We had 48 00:02:54.400 --> 00:03:00.759 great seats. We had wonderful seats and they were free. Now I'm sad 49 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.159 about that because Stephanie didn't make the money, but actually she did. She 50 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.120 made her money for that night. And since we bought drinks and Steve bought 51 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.400 you know stuff, the casino made its money, the venue made their money. 52 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:14.319 It was all fine, and we had a great time. So if 53 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:17.759 you're in the Bay Area or Reno or several other places, I would join 54 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:23.800 house seats. It's called houseats dot com and it's a great way to get 55 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:25.400 out. We've Steve and I have gone to three news. It's paid for 56 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:29.599 itself. We've gone to like three shows. So it was great. And 57 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.800 Stephanie Mills the bomb would I will pay, you know, I'd pay to 58 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:36.039 see her, and I don't pay to see many concerts see if I don't 59 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:39.400 go as media or whatever. But she was great. It was a splurge. 60 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:42.759 We had a good time. I left Ember alone. Oh God, 61 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:46.960 Ember has a luck stating patella. Okay. When I got home, she 62 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:51.360 was so excited she threw her kneecap out and started screaming in pain and I 63 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:54.800 already felt guilty enough about leaving her. Bridget babysat for me, which was 64 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:59.240 nice, but oh god, the drama when I got home and then I 65 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:01.560 massaged her leg and finally she got better, and oh lord, that just 66 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:04.400 makes me not want to leave her. But anyway, it was great. 67 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:09.960 It was a great show. So Rhonda Santis is now the board of this 68 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:15.840 Disney district is suing Disney because Disney is suing the board and Rhonda Santis, 69 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.160 and how is this going to end? While legal experts have weighed in, 70 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:24.399 and you know what might help save the day here? Citizens United. That 71 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:31.199 horrible ruling that Republicans pushed through to give corporations personhood, which means corporations have 72 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:38.639 been able to enjoy rights under the Constitution like free speech. Well, if 73 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:45.560 this is if Citizens United is applied in this case, desantists is punishing Disney 74 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:51.000 because they supported the anti They actually they were against that don't Say Gay law. 75 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:56.839 They supported those who were against the don't Say Gay law. And under 76 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:01.879 Citizens United, it is that corporation's right if they want to speak out against 77 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:06.839 the don't Say Gay law, it is their constitutional right to freedom of speech. 78 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:14.839 Republicans are the ones who gave corporations personhood, and now under Citizens United, 79 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:20.560 Disney actually has legal legs to stand on improving that all of this has 80 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:28.480 been political retaliation for them opposing Round Santists. That's the essence of the First 81 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:33.439 Amendment, speaking truth to power without fear of repercussion. This is the exact 82 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:39.839 reason the First Amendment exists for people, for you and I. In other 83 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:43.839 words, a governor or a senator shouldn't be able to come after you for 84 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:48.120 speaking out against them and ruin your business and ruin your life. That's protected 85 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:55.079 under the First Amendment. Your speech. Well, under Citizens United, which 86 00:05:55.120 --> 00:06:01.439 give corporations personhood, Disney's speech, Disney's objection to the don't say gay law 87 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:06.480 would be protected under freedom of speech. And Disney knows this, and they've 88 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:13.040 got more money and more lawyers than Florida or Ronda. Santists and Republicans know 89 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:17.600 this, and they're scared. They're scared that De Santists is going to lose 90 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:23.920 against Mickey Mouse, and if he does, it will not look good for 91 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:28.800 a presidential bid. It also doesn't look good that he is taking on private 92 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:36.120 corporations for their public views. Because Republicans are frightened that in states like California 93 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:41.680 that Gavin Newsom could now put places out of business, you know, find 94 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:46.040 them, censure them, make regulations against them if they are not on the 95 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:54.319 democratic or progressive side of things. And so Republicans actually are not supporting Ronda 96 00:06:54.399 --> 00:07:00.160 Santists. Meanwhile, Disneyland in California's having their first sanctioned gay event after hours. 97 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.319 It's during Pride month, and they did that, unfortunately, not to 98 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:08.199 support the gay community. And I mean that, you know, they're doing 99 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:13.800 it more to smite ron Da Santis. It's you know, they've had a 100 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:15.879 chance. You know, Pride's been going on as long as I am almost 101 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:19.639 as long as I am old, since nineteen sixty nine. They've had a 102 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:26.800 chance. Over the last what fifty four years, they've had the chance to 103 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:30.360 support gay pride. But on the Gay Pride Day that happens where everyone wears 104 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:33.759 a red shirt, they actually were giving people that didn't you know, that 105 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:38.639 accidentally wore red shirts and didn't want to identify as gay. They would actually 106 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:43.360 give them a Disney shirt so they didn't have to be you know, assumed 107 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:47.079 to be gay. Now they're doing a full on gay night. Well, 108 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:51.240 that's Ron De Santis is doing. Okay, So they're doing that to anger 109 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:56.079 round Santis, not to really please the gays, but oh well, the 110 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:58.800 gays will go and enjoy it and support it. I would perform there, 111 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:03.560 but I couldn't find out who handles the talent. I spent probably thirty minutes 112 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.680 on the phone with Disney Corporate in both Orlando and California trying to find out 113 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.560 who was booking talent for that night, and they couldn't tell me. They 114 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:16.040 don't know. They honestly did not know. That's how messed up Disney is 115 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:20.800 when it comes to who handles their talent. They were they were given me 116 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:22.560 the names of people that handled like their dancers at nights and what No, 117 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.439 who's booking the talent for them? Oh well that would be a third party? 118 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:28.879 What third party? Well, we don't know, you don't know. 119 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:37.159 Whatever. So Citizens United, which I hated, could actually turn around and 120 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:43.519 bite the Republicans in the ass, and I hope it does. I hope 121 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:48.600 Ronda Santis because look, we gotta start, you know, stopping evil in 122 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:54.879 its tracks. I'm glad Disney has money and is standing up to De Santis. 123 00:08:54.919 --> 00:09:01.840 I wish more people with money would stand up to these horrifying people because 124 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:05.960 they're decimating our nation. And you know, if they win, they're projected 125 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:09.080 to win the House and Senate. If they do, we are done as 126 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:11.600 a nation. And I mean I'm not being you know, we talk a 127 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:15.600 lot. There's a lot of them things. It's like hyperbole or exaggeration, 128 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:18.440 or the sky is falling? How many chunks have to hit you in the 129 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:24.759 head before you realize the sky actually is falling? I mean, how many 130 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:31.039 how much of the sky has to collapse upon you before you realize it's actually 131 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:35.639 falling. It's like climate change the Pacific Northwest, including Canada, where I 132 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:41.039 would love to be in Vancouver. I'm number two hundred and twelve there today 133 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:46.879 on the podcast charts. How many of you will believe that there is a 134 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:52.879 giant heat wave coming this summer for Vancouver for seattles? All right, when 135 00:09:52.879 --> 00:10:05.919 we come back, what are the writers strugging about when they go week go 136 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:20.039 to the sky. If you're not visiting really correll dot com daily, you're 137 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:24.000 missing out. Get the podcast videos and the blug including recipes at really correll 138 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:33.080 dot com. That's really KA R E l dot Com. Uncensored, unfiltered, 139 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:39.120 unhinged, it's the cruel cast. And if the Currell cast and I 140 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.600 am Correl, why are the writers about to strike? And what will it 141 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:45.159 mean to your entertainment? A lot? Actually, back when it happened in 142 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:48.320 two thousand and seven, a reality TV took over because they don't have a 143 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:52.000 lot of writers and be the quality of television went way down, and then 144 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.279 the actors and craftsman joined in the strike and production shut down. A lot 145 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:00.639 of your shows didn't get full seasons or just sort of end it abruptly. 146 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:05.480 So it will affect the entertainment that you see. But why are they striking? 147 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:09.799 Well, I heard the report on NPR this morning and I heard writers 148 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:16.279 interviewed, and it struck me because I woke up worried this morning. And 149 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.960 one of the topics I wanted to do for you today was, you know, 150 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:24.960 sometimes you feel like a fraud. You know, you get up and 151 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:30.840 you put on that happy face and you get yourself in a good mood, 152 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:39.279 but inside there's a storm. You know, inside you're tumultuous, Inside, 153 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:45.840 you're depressed. Inside, you're really worried, but you can't let your wife 154 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:50.120 or husband know or the kids, or your employer or whatever. So you 155 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.679 put on that game face and you get out there and you try to inspire 156 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.159 others. You try to lift others up, You try to be supportive of 157 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:05.759 others when inside you're I don't want to say slowly dying, but inside you're 158 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:11.279 afraid. And I come out here every day and I project this image to 159 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:16.159 you. It's not an image I don't project. It's real what you see. 160 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:20.320 But a lot of times I don't let you in on exactly how bad 161 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.039 or badly I'm feeling inside. You don't want to hear it. You don't 162 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:31.039 need to hear it. It doesn't help you. But I'm really worried about 163 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:33.960 money. Now. I've had the actual blessing to be disabled. I know 164 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:41.240 that sounds really weird, but between my sag Aftra and my soul security, 165 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:45.519 you know, I get and with Patreon, which I am allowed, I'm 166 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:50.080 allowed up to thirteen hundred a month on disability, so I'm allowed the seven 167 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:56.120 hundred from Patreon. So between that, you know, I get about forty 168 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:01.960 five about almost sixty about fifty five sixty grand a year all told. Now, 169 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:05.960 that's not really enough to live in today's world. But it's a lot 170 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:09.279 more than a lot of people are making. And so I've been blessed. 171 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:16.039 I need more. Everybody does. That's poverty level. We've proven fifty seven 172 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:20.120 thousand dollars a year or below in America right now is basically poverty level where 173 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:26.360 you're just meeting your bills. You do not have extra money for like anything. 174 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:31.279 I haven't traveled in so long because it's an other than long beach for 175 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:35.600 doctors. And so I woke up thinking, how are you going to exploit 176 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:41.200 what you have? If you type into Google how much does the average podcast 177 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.799 make? It says five to nine hundred a month, I'm right in that 178 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:48.879 range. And if you type you know, so I'm a how are you 179 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:52.000 get? Like married men? And it got lost during COVID. It's a 180 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:56.840 great song and disco is happening right now. I want to rerelease it. 181 00:13:56.080 --> 00:14:01.759 That takes money, a house version of Stronger Together. I believe in it. 182 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:07.000 It takes money, and I can't keep getting in my own debt using 183 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:11.759 my own money. And this is where the topic of the writer strike comes 184 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:16.600 in. I don't you know there the money making opportunities in entertainment are drying 185 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:24.360 up, so writers there when the episode they have written airs, they get 186 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.000 their one hundred percent residual for that episode, their negotiated rate that they have 187 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:35.639 been paid for that episode. But remembers TV series have gone from twenty three 188 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:37.679 episodes, I mean, Law and Order still does twenty three and such, 189 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:43.799 but many are now twelve or even eight episodes per season, and so the 190 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:48.399 number of episodes has been cut, so their income has been cut there. 191 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:54.120 And then when it comes to residuals, if you watch Abbot Elementary, the 192 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.879 writers get one hundred percent of the residual for the first time it airs, 193 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.679 the second time or every time they're after that it would air. In the 194 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:07.399 past, they would get a fifty percent residual, half of their normal residual. 195 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:15.120 But streamers where everything is going now, ABCNBCCBS, they don't play their 196 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:18.919 sitcoms and stuff over and over again like they used to syndication. You know, 197 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:24.279 there's no such thing anymore syndication really I on TV and such, they're 198 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:33.440 considered streamers and they pay a five percent residual, not fifty. So people 199 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:37.440 who used to be getting checks for ten thousand, thirty thousand, twenty thousand, 200 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:45.559 they're now getting checks no lie for five dollars, seven dollars twelve dollars. 201 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:52.720 Emmy winning writers for television shows in between the seasons, which is a 202 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:58.120 long period now, have literally said they have to drive for Uber and they 203 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:03.679 have an Emmy for writing television that you love, and they struggle to make 204 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:08.080 the bills and the rent. Now in these are people with Emmy's far more 205 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:18.320 famous than I, and in between seasons, they're struggling financially because of streaming, 206 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:23.080 and now with AI, they want to assure, they want assurances from 207 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:27.440 television that they're not going to have scripts written by AI, and they're already 208 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:30.600 doing it. People. People are already saying, write me an episode of 209 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:34.679 Friends, and the AI is spitting one out and while it's not perfected yet, 210 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:40.799 it will be. And writers are very afraid of that and should be. 211 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:45.879 And so they're trying to negotiate in their deals that these companies Netflix and 212 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:52.440 ABC and stuff will not use AI to write scripts. And so the companies 213 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.879 are saying no, And so the writers are going to go on strike because 214 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:02.799 they have no other choice, because they cannot make a living anymore, even 215 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:07.920 if they're writing for shows like Avid Elementary or your favorite television shows on Netflix 216 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:11.599 or whatever, your favorite series that you see the writers, and there are 217 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:17.160 no there is no great television without a writer. And yet the directors and 218 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:22.200 the producer like you know, Seanda Rhymes and Ryan Murphy, they make multiples 219 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:26.720 of millions of dollars, but they don't write the stuff. Some of them, 220 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.319 some episodes are written by them, but not many. It all goes 221 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:37.200 back to the writer. Magazines, newspapers, they're now using AI. They're 222 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:42.559 using people with no writing experiences. Typos they're everywhere, grammatical errors they're everywhere, 223 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:48.240 and real writers such as myself, we can't get hired. And if 224 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.599 they we do that acause I thought this morning, while you could start writing 225 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:56.279 again in your you know, in off time, you know, you maybe 226 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:03.680 should approach radio. But radio is not hiring. Radio's firing. Stephanie Miller 227 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:07.279 has a Patreon. She's only doing one Sexy Liberal tour this year because of 228 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:14.960 cost. How Sparks you know, donations Patreon, David Packman donations Patreon. 229 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:21.440 They're not making a lot of money, they're making enough. And while steph 230 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:23.519 ain't poor, she comes from money. And while you know none of these, 231 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:29.319 you know, how Sparks makes more touring with his Van Halen you know 232 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:34.480 nerd Halen band that he does, doing a talk show. And so the 233 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:40.440 whole business of entertainment streaming is killing it. My friend Thea used to get 234 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:45.440 residual checks every year for rhythm as a dancers celebrating thirty years. You still 235 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.839 hear it on all the streaming. I hear it every day. You probably 236 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:53.079 do too if you listen to music. She got a check from Spotify for 237 00:18:53.200 --> 00:19:00.559 our five hundred and sixty dollars for a hundred thousand screen streams. That would 238 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:04.799 normally be a ten thousand dollars check if she was getting paid the royalty. 239 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:10.359 And who's making the money? Spotifies making that money. The difference between the 240 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:15.400 five hundred and the ten thousand, that nine thousand, nine hundred or nine 241 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:22.319 thousand, five hundred dollars that's going in Spotify's pocket. Apple Music is making 242 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:29.359 a fortune, not the people on it. And what's so wal who made 243 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:33.559 these deals these companies said, if you want to be on our service, 244 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:36.920 if you want your music distributed, this is what we pay, like it 245 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:41.680 or lumpet be and my music might go out of business because there's other ways 246 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:48.160 to collect royalties now and writers aren't making as much royalties as GAP is having 247 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:53.119 financial difficulties publishing companies that publish the music that collect the royalties because the royalties 248 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:59.519 just aren't there. So the writers are striking to try to protect what little 249 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:03.880 income they have coming in now, and streamers in the networks don't want to 250 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:11.400 do it. They act like they can exist without riders and now with AI 251 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:38.400 maybe they can wow chef up, big wow, making yours device a whole 252 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:44.119 lots murder. Get the correl Cast damp free at the app store of your 253 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:53.839 choice, now, uncensored, unfiltered, unhinged. It's the correl Cast. 254 00:20:55.960 --> 00:20:57.759 He does correl Cast. I am Correll. I mean, just a big 255 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:02.519 wow before we move on to the national anthem and restaurants. And that's why 256 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:06.839 it had me feeling like a fraud, because you know, I have to 257 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:10.319 be happy during the day. I can. I am blessed. I cannot 258 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:12.400 be depressed because I am blessed. I own my home, I have food. 259 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:17.519 You know I'm not driving for Uber yet, you know I'm blessed. 260 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:22.480 I have Ember. She has good health care because she's insured. Ninety six 261 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:26.440 dollars a month. I pay for her insurance. Now, So in the 262 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:29.759 grand scheme, I'm blessed. But as I told the universe this morning, 263 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:36.680 I'm not done. I want to do more, and every creative person out 264 00:21:36.680 --> 00:21:40.119 there, We're not done. We want to do more. As Adell collects 265 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:44.640 a million two for one night, there's a hundred artists here in Las Vegas 266 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:51.039 that can barely pay the bills because the venues pay one artist and the other 267 00:21:51.039 --> 00:22:00.759 people that work there Spotify it is raping music artist Apple Music, God bless 268 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:07.559 them. Like my podcast is charting on Apple Podcasts right now as we speak 269 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:11.440 in the top two hundred. Am I making any money from Apple at all? 270 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:15.599 No? Am I driving people to their platform? Yes? Now they 271 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:19.319 have partner programs set up and this and that that you can get involved in. 272 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:23.160 It's not worth the effort. You do it and you end up making 273 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:30.319 two hundred bucks and you have to go through a ton of work. And 274 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:34.559 so we just we are devaluing everybody in the arts. We're devaluing music. 275 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:38.880 And meanwhile the met galats going on and you doze a cat this and blahdah 276 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:45.160 blah that. Yes, there are like thirty people in music making money and 277 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:52.039 nobody else even Gay Pride events. They're booking huge stars now, Mariah Carey, 278 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:56.039 Grace Jones. That means the budget for the smaller acts has been cut. 279 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:00.039 So travel budgets are being cut, Hotel budgets are being cut, personal 280 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:03.960 appearance fees are being cut. They used to give people like Crystal Waters or 281 00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:07.799 thea you know, three grand, five grand, seven grand to go do 282 00:23:07.960 --> 00:23:11.240 you know? Three five songs? Now it's fifteen hundred, a thousand and 283 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:19.319 your own travel expenses, and we are devaluing all of it. And it's 284 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:26.680 just so sad. It's so sad the writers even have to strike. Without 285 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:30.799 writers, there's no entertainment. I just happened to be a content I'm a 286 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:37.599 writer. You know, many podcasts people their podcast has written for them, 287 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:44.680 someone helps them write it, you know, without creativity and art, we 288 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:51.119 just are such a valueless people, you know. And I'm blessed that I 289 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:53.960 get seven hundred a month from Patreon. It used to be twelve hundred. 290 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:57.160 But I guess a lot of you don't like me anymore, or a lot 291 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:00.640 of you are broke, or my message ain't getting out or what. I 292 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:04.359 don't know, maybe I'm not promoting it right. I don't know, but 293 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:10.640 I'm not alone. You know, everyone's numbers have gone down, and meanwhile 294 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:12.680 I come out here three times a week trying to make your view of the 295 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:19.960 world, you know, a little different. Writers try to write things that 296 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:23.359 make you think and entertain you, like Ghosts, the show Ghost on TV. 297 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:29.279 The writing is hysterical and wonderful. But those writers, they're not making 298 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:33.119 much money from Paramount plus streamer. They make their hundred percent residual when it 299 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.319 airs the first time on CBS, but then when I watch it on Paramount 300 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:41.759 Plus, they're not getting much money from my stream at all. That's not 301 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.960 right. Now. What can you do about it? What can I do 302 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:51.279 about it? You can support artists you love. You can go to more 303 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:53.480 live performances, like I went to see Stephanie Mills. Even if it's through 304 00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:57.160 LV house Seats or throughhouse seats dot Com. You're still going to support the 305 00:24:57.240 --> 00:25:02.279 venue. You're still gonna give money there, and the artist has been paid 306 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:04.680 unless it goes to I would never take house seats for an event where the 307 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:11.799 artist is getting a percentage of the door for like smaller shows. I would 308 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:14.720 only do it for the big, big shows in the big arena. They 309 00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:19.680 give away tons of seats anyway, and they always have. But I would 310 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:22.519 never do it for a show where it's like a hundred people or two hundred 311 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:30.160 people, I would pay because that goes right to the artist. Stephanie got 312 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:36.000 her guarantee, paid up front. The promoter paider whether my ticket was free 313 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:41.400 or not, that you know, that doesn't matter. And the promoter made 314 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:45.160 money off the alcohol sales, made money off the merchandise sales made money. 315 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:49.319 So the promoter got their money. And it's a forty five hundred seat venue. 316 00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:53.839 They got their money after two thousand seats were sold at you know, 317 00:25:53.960 --> 00:26:00.880 fifty seventy eighty one hundred dollars a ticket. So I don't badly about that. 318 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:04.799 But a smaller show i'd buy unless I was invited as media, in 319 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:08.359 which case I'm working. I'm providing a service. I'm publicizing their show. 320 00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:12.279 And even today by telling you all to go see Stephanie Mills, to go 321 00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:17.640 buy a ticket to see Stephanie Mills, you know, that's promotion. Promotion 322 00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:25.079 isn't free. So I heard in California, Fairfield, someone was dining. 323 00:26:25.319 --> 00:26:29.440 They were filming their pancakes on TikTok, and right then the national anthem came 324 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:36.000 on in the restaurant and people stood up and did their whole whatever, and 325 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:40.119 under the comments it said, oh, yeah, this happened in Marietta, 326 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:44.079 That's happened here, That's happened there. So there seems to be businesses now, 327 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:49.359 like restaurants starting to play the national anthem anthem I hate, by the 328 00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:52.200 way, I think I hate that. A. It's a British song. 329 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:56.359 B. It was written during war about war, rockets and bombs, and 330 00:26:56.400 --> 00:27:00.559 they make it seem noble that we can blow shit up and that war, 331 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:04.160 you know, it's steeped in war. You know, the greatest generation will 332 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:10.759 be a generation that lives without war. So America the Beautiful should actually be 333 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:17.599 our national anthem. But that being said, these people just randomly playing the 334 00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:22.440 national anthem and expecting people to stand up. Have you seen Cabaret? Okay, 335 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.400 Cabaret, If you haven't seen it, you should either the play or 336 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.279 the movie. Cabaret is in the there's a scene where they're all out in 337 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:33.880 the country, the Baron and Liza and Michael York, where they're all they're 338 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:37.960 having it. They were a thruttle and they were a thruple. They were 339 00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:44.759 all sleeping with the baron. They're out there and a Nazi youth stands up 340 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:49.240 and start singing Tomorrow belongs to me, the Nazi youth theme, Oh Father, 341 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:56.079 the land, Father, lanchas your pride. And they show how even 342 00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.680 people who are uneasy about it all stand up because if they don't, there'll 343 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:07.079 be repercussions. That's exactly what this is. It is exactly out of the 344 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:15.160 Nazi playbook. It is creepy, it is wrong, this forced sense of 345 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:22.480 patriotism that the right has claimed. These people who know nothing about patriotism or 346 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:29.279 their country or the constitution, but will condemn you if you do not stand 347 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:33.160 for the national anthem. I don't stand for the national anthem. Screw the 348 00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:37.960 national lanthem. You're not gonna tell me when and how I'm going to have 349 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:41.400 pride in my country. You know when Whitney Houston saying it, it gave 350 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:45.119 me great joy. Why because of the performance, there wasn't some false sense 351 00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:49.519 of patriotism, The land of the free, the home of the brave. 352 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:52.720 If you're so free, you'd be free to sit for the national anthem. 353 00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:17.920 I am on, I am hey, it's correll Ember, and I would 354 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:19.640 like to thank you for joining us today and remind you there's a way to 355 00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:23.519 never miss a thing, and that's by subscribing right now to my YouTube channel. 356 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:27.759 Just click the subscribe button below, or go to YouTube dot com forward 357 00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:33.640 slash Really Correll that's YouTube dot com, forward slash really Correll for a world 358 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:38.079 of great free content, and that content is kept free by the fabulous groupe 359 00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:41.920 of patrons. 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